quizme Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Altidore to Villa? Interesting. Alot of american sources claim this to be true. I would love it, I rate him quite high. Has come along alot since his days in Hull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SempiternalVillain Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 If we're looking for a striker in the Eredivisie.. Personally I would go for Finnbogason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I think we need two pacy striker/wingers with trickery and good crossing ability. Gabby and Wiemann are solid attackers.. but should be back up (or at least Wiemann) as Gabby on form is excellent. Gabby Benteke and Bony would have been unreal! This is why i think Lambert doesnt rate Bent... he prefers Bowery as a number two (for strength and holding up the ball) as apposed to Bent. Bent also lacks pace and trickery on the wing and doesnt have a good work ethic. Hence why he doesnt really fit into his plans. Sell him get 10 million or so and sign a more suitable striker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironsid Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Lescott seems out of favour at the moment. Any value in going for him or would his wages break the structure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaRob Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Lescott seems out of favour at the moment. Any value in going for him or would his wages break the structure? They might, except I believe he is a Villa fan so that may go some way to reducing them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted November 30, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted November 30, 2012 Lescott says he's happy to wait for a chance at City, though of course you wouldn't expect him to say anything else. "I've been fit for a couple of weeks now and while it was disappointing to be left out of the squads at Chelsea and Wigan, the manager has to pick a team and bench that he thinks can do a job on the day and I respect that. I'll just do my job, train hard and wait for my chance to get back in the team. In the meantime, I'll be rooting for the lads the same as if I was out on the pitch." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Altidore to Villa? Interesting. Alot of american sources claim this to be true. Just heard this on talk sport. Is he the guy who was pretty poor for hull a few years back? The guy who said it was the same one who said Ireland to New York red bulls was a done deal in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisVillan Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Just heard this on talk sport. Is he the guy who was pretty poor for hull a few years back? The guy who said it was the same one who said Ireland to New York red bulls was a done deal in the summer. Yeah, that's Altidore. Improved a lot since then, but big question mark over his suitability for Premier League imo. I like him a lot and he's a big, strong player but he never seemed to impose himself on matches at Hull. He was young, mind you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Yeah, that's Altidore. Improved a lot since then, but big question mark over his suitability for Premier League imo. I like him a lot and he's a big, strong player but he never seemed to impose himself on matches at Hull. He was young, mind you. A young Heskey, its a no from me. I dont think he suited to the premier league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Lescott seems out of favour at the moment. Any value in going for him or would his wages break the structure? I would imagine that Lescotts wages would be a problem. Unless he takes a big pay cut because he wants to play regularly and has a love for the game. He is however a modern footballer and will probably be quite happy bench warming for 90k per week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I think we need two pacy striker/wingers with trickery and good crossing ability. Gabby and Wiemann are solid attackers.. but should be back up (or at least Wiemann) as Gabby on form is excellent. Gabby Benteke and Bony would have been unreal! This is why i think Lambert doesnt rate Bent... he prefers Bowery as a number two (for strength and holding up the ball) as apposed to Bent. Bent also lacks pace and trickery on the wing and doesnt have a good work ethic. Hence why he doesnt really fit into his plans. Sell him get 10 million or so and sign a more suitable striker. I think Bony will look for a bigger club tbh. He turned me down on fm13 as he had no intenton of playing for Aston Villa lol !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan_007 Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Masterstroke from Lambert to sign Bony when he did - shame Vitenssse cancelled last minute - too many big clubs sniffing now, we wont be in contention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 agree with KHV on both posts - no way will lescott even entertain joining us, modern day football, as long as he plays enough games to ensure he can get a medal (12 i think) he's happy with his role (money having nothing to do with it, at all, honest...) Not sure if its true or if its his agent but Bony has been talked up by liverpool, chelsea and spurs, sounds like he's set his sights higher than us already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattyp_avfc Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Out: Bent, Dunne, Warnock, Hutton, Delph, Given and N'zogbia. (Total around the 20-23m mark depending on fees for Bent, Delph and Nzogbia). In (Ideally): Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, James Chester, Joshua Guilavogui (DM from Saint Ettiene), Victor Rodriguez (Winger/AM from Zaragoza), Charlie Austin and Felix Wiedwald. Methinks that would keep us up and get us far far further ----------------------Guzan -----------------Vlaar--------Clark/Chester Lowton-------------------------------------------Bennett ----------------Guilavogui ------------------------------Westwood ---------------Bannan/Ireland Aubameyang---------------------------Gabby -----------------------Benteke Subs Siegrist Chester/Clark Lichaj Rodriguez Herd Austin Bowery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Where did this bony rumour come from? Didn't hear anything in the summer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Any players that we are being linked to won't be our actual signings. Lambert will surprise us again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Sold or maybe even loaned:- Hutton, Warnock, Dunne, NZogbia, Given, Bent, Ireland, Delfouneso, Albrighton, Makoun, Delph. Between January and the remainder of the season I feel between this lot of players will be sold/loaned in January transfer window and the remainder and all of that group will more than likely be gone by next July but I don't know about Ireland since the board signed him. Considering the contracts left on most of them I would say quite a bit of money could be freed up in wages and built up in transfer fees considering most if not all of these players will leave come June. Dunne, Warnock, Makoun, Lichaj & I think Delfouneso aswell all have 7 months left.Albrighton, Hutton & Ireland have 19 months left.Bent & Delph have 31 months left.NZogbia & Given have 43 months left. Some are on below 60K some are on more than 60k a week so lets say for arguments sake they are all on average on 62k a week - 4 weeks in a month thats 240k each x 12 month = 2.9m a year each player. x by 10 players thats a nice whopping 29m roughly in wages a year just on these 10 players in there remaining contract periods - half of which are doing **** all for this club! If all the above players mentioned leave this club between now and June we will be saving roughly 60m+ in wages based on the lengths of there contracts based on a 62k a week wage. We should no problem also raise atleast 20-24m by the time they have all been sold in transfer fees. By then Paul Lambert should have the foundations in place and ready to add to our squad after this player transistion with more quality at half the cost & wages arriving again to replace the players departing plus the big influx of money next season I think it is essential we finnish as high as we can and continue to build the team from top to bottom as Lambert is doing. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 IN - Liam Trotter Great shout, he's been brilliant for Millwall this season and he can take pens too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan_007 Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Where did this bony rumour come from? Didn't hear anything in the summer? Not a rumour, was factamundo. We agreed a season long loan with a 10 mill euro purchase in the summer. All done deal then vitesse moved the goal posts at the 11th hour and was too late to do anythnig about it. If someone could be kind enough to post the link, can't do it at the mo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 agree with KHV on both posts - no way will lescott even entertain joining us, modern day football, as long as he plays enough games to ensure he can get a medal (12 i think) he's happy with his role (money having nothing to do with it, at all, honest...) I have no issue with this whatsoever. £90k a week and part of a championship challenging side (which he will be part of and if he isn't, he won't be thinking that yet) or half of that in cash and battling for 10th. I mean ok, you get the glory of playing every week for the famous Aston Villa, but then I'm not a neutral. We have the same conversation regarding The Lord Jimmy Milner every window. It's almost as if we intentionally ignore the fact that he's regularly starting or coming off the bench for them and picking up £100k a week for the pleasure. We're delusional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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